survey result

Summary

£35
    £
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Chef Corrie Thomas and husband Lou have re-created the food they discovered during a long stint in Vietnam at this shack-like café in a shopping parade outside Whitley Bay. The “dishes show not just love but a real understanding of the South-East Asian food they serve” and the “atmosphere is charming” too. For regulars who’ve been quietly enjoying the “excellent outfit” for almost a decade, it’s “a great shame that Jay Rayner (in March 2024) has now given this a rave review” (citing “cracking” dishes such as the beef and peanut curry) since “it‘s already really hard to get a booking”.

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Have you eaten at Omni Cafe?

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12 Front Street, Monkseaton, NE25 8DF

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Observer

Jay Rayner  worried about pongs this week, issuing a general apology to
fellow travellers on the train home from Newcastle for the smells issuing from the takeaway cartons he resorted to after massively over-ordering at a
“Vietnamese-inspired café tucked into the end of a shopping parade just
outside Whitley Bay”.

Omni Café was recommended to Jay by readers – “I can see why,” he says:
“the food is cracking”. Chef Corrie Thomas and her husband Lou spent years living in Vietnam and travelling around southeast Asia, and have re-created the food they discovered there, to serve in a “faux beach shack of a dining room”.

“I went to Omni for the beef and peanut curry; I stayed for everything else,”
Jay writes, listing spice-dusted shrimp crackers and sweet-sour pickled
vegetables among his favourites.

Jay Rayner - 2024-03-18

Prices

Starter Main Pudding
£5.00 £14.00 £0.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £25.00
Filter Coffee £0.00
Extras  
Service 10.00%
Leaflet | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
12 Front Street, Monkseaton, NE25 8DF
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday11 am‑10 pm
Wednesday11 am‑10 pm
Thursday11 am‑10 pm
Friday11 am‑10:30 pm
Saturday10 am‑10:30 pm
SundayCLOSED

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